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Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 9:28am

Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle

Apr. 18, 2012

Comment by doone on April 17, 2012 at 8:37am

Antares and Clouds 
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder

Explanation: Antares is a huge star. In a class called red supergiant, Antares is about 850 times the diameter of our own Sun, 15 times more massive, and 10,000 times brighter. Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius and one of the brighter stars in all the night sky. Located about 550 light years away, Antares is seen on the left surrounded by a yellowish nebula of gas which it has itself expelled. Radiation from Antares' blue stellar companion helps cause the nebular gas to glow. Far behind Antares, to the lower right in the above image, is the globular star cloud M4, while the bright star on the far right is Al Niyat.

Comment by doone on April 16, 2012 at 7:45pm

Purple Door, Jaipur, India

Apr. 16, 2012

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Comment by doone on April 16, 2012 at 4:43pm

The Eagle Nebula from Kitt Peak 
Image Credit: T. A. Rector & B. A. Wolpa, NOAO, AURA

Explanation: From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. The Eagle emission nebula, tagged M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years, and is visible with binoculars toward the constellation of the Serpent (Serpens). This picturecombines three specific emitted colors and was taken with the 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.

Comment by Michel on April 16, 2012 at 2:03pm

Incredible galaxy imaging:

1,000 Days of Infrared Wonders

ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2012) — For the last 1000 days the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood. The IRAC "warm" program began once Spitzer used up its liquid helium coolant, thus completing its "cold" mission. To commemorate 1000 days of infrared wonders, the program is releasing a gallery of the 10 best IRAC images.

And the images are fantastic! Make sure you click on the High Resolution Image links.

Click the image to enlarge - you'll get a taste.

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 5:56pm

Active Sun in 3-D

 

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 5:52pm

Space Weather for only non God Fearing humans, God fearing humans need God for perspective and can only view the universe through the eyes of the Bible.

In Falmouth, Maine, photographer John Stetson turned his solar telescope toward sunspot group 1271 and found it seething. "The active region is bright and crackling, surrounded by long, twisting filaments of magnetism that seem poised to produce some powerful flares," he says. Indeed,NOAA analysts note that the sunspot has a "beta-delta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class explosions

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Comment by doone on April 14, 2012 at 12:43pm

Six Moons of Saturn 
Image Credit & Copyright: Rafael Defavari

Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? So far 62 have been discovered, the smallest only a fraction of a kilometer across. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here, though, in a sharp Saturnian family portrait taken on March 9. Larger than Earth's Moon and even slightly larger than Mercury, Titan has a diameter of 5,150 kilometers and starts the line-up at the lower left. Continuing to the right across the frame are Mimas, Tethys, [Saturn], Enceladus, Dione, and Rhea at far right. Saturn's first known natural satellite, Titan was discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, while most recently the satellite provisionally designated S/2009 S1 was found by the Cassini Imaging Science Team in 2009. Tonight, Saturn reaches opposition in planet Earth's sky, offering the best telescopic views of the ringed planet and moons.

Comment by doone on April 13, 2012 at 9:59am

Our Home Galaxy

Apr. 13, 2012

And, ours is just one of many…
-JH

Comment by Michel on April 13, 2012 at 9:27am

That's my new desktop background. THNX!

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